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My mother has invoked it at various points in my life to try to motivate me to do the bare minimum to help myself when she did not think I was doing even that m
by ryao 2y ago
My mother has invoked it at various points in my life to try to motivate me to do the bare minimum to help myself when she did not think I was doing even that much (and was capable of doing it). I suppose that could have seemed like a cudgel to observers, but it was not.
As for prayers being unanswered, there are two tragedies in this world. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it. Interestingly, the Mouse Utopia Experiment showed that giving everyone everything that they could ever want is ultimately bad for them. That is perhaps a major reason why various prayers are unanswered.
- Retric 2y agoMouse Utopia experiment doesn’t give mice space it’s just not the kind of restriction that’s initially obvious. The modern take is when you put animals into environments well outside what they evolved for you get seemingly bizarre behavior.
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- minton 2y agoI don’t think we need a study to understand that someone who always gets everything they want is usually a spoiled brat.
- Retric 2y agoThat’s exactly the kind of assumption you should want someone to rigorously examine. But more importantly it was not happening in those experiments.